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AchaemenesAchaemenes (from Persian Hakhāmanish) was the eponymous ancestor of the royal house of Persia, the Achaemenid dynasty. The name Achaemenes is also borne by a son of Darius I, brother of Xerxes I. After the first rebellion of Egypt, he became satrap of Egypt (484 B.C.); he commanded the Persian fleet at Salamis Island, and was (460 B.C.) defeated and slain by Inarus, the leader of the second rebellion of Egypt. A man called Achaemenes is a minor character in Virgil's Aeneid. His character seems to have been chosen by Virgil treating the name Achaemenes as Greek and extracting a meaning "he who waits with affliction".
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